DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
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	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

InterSystems

Percona

Speedb

Initial release

2012

1983

2018

2015

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2023.3, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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